Danielle Lay

Danielle Lay is a Partner at NEA. She joined the firm in New York in 2017. Danielle invests in companies at all stages and is focused on consumer social and commerce infrastructure businesses. Her investments include Fizz, Patreon, Goody, Pair Eyewear, and Prime Financial Technologies. In addition, she was involved with NEA’s investments in Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM), Framebridge (acquired), Block, Burrow, Enigma, Formlabs and Wizard. Danielle is also a member of NEA’s Asia investing team and was involved with NEA’s investments in Gravel, Super and Zuoyebang, among others. Prior to joining NEA, she was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs advising clients in the financial technology and payments sectors on M&A and IPO transactions. Earlier in her career, she was the founder of a web development agency called DesignWorks. Danielle earned her Bachelor’s at Northwestern University in Economics, Business Institutions and Chinese.